Integrating Multiple Knowledge Sources for Detection and Correction of Repairs in Human-Computer Dialog

We have analyzed 607 sentences of spontaneous human-computer speech data containing repairs, drawn from a total corpus of 10,718 sentences. We present here criteria and techniques for automatically detecting the presence of a repair, its location, and making the appropriate correction. The criteria involve integration of knowledge from several sources: pattern matching, syntactic and semantic analysis, and acoustics.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1992
• Where: ACL
• Authors: John Bear, John Dowding, Elizabeth Shriberg
• Keywords: ACL 1992, ACL 2007, Criteria Involve Integration, Data Containing Repairs, Spontaneous Human-computer Speech